Transcribed from the sheet music in Collected Songs [of] Edward Harrigan and David Braham, edited by Jon W. Finson, 1997.

THE FAMILY OVERHEAD
Words, Edward Harrigan. Music, David Braham.
New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1883.
"As sung in Ed. Harrigan's new play The Muddy Day"

1. I live in Casey's barracks, in the Rue de Mulberry.
I'm entertained each evening with a tuneful melody:
Cornelius Dowd MacGovren with eight children, it is said;
They constitute the people in that fam'ly overhead.

CHORUS: There['s] Rosy and Josy, with Mary Ann and Kate,
Young Nora and Cora, they're never home till late.
Such howling and yowling, enough to wake the dead,
And thumping on pianos, that fam'ly overhead.

2. I have to rise up early, about four o'clock or five.
The way my sleep is broken it's a wonder I'm alive.
When I lay down, I'm tired, och! I'm like a lump of lead.
I'm woke up by the yelling of that fam'ly overhead.

3. 'Twas just the other evening, oh, I dreamt a pleasant dream.
I thought I was a-swimming in a reservoir of cream.
Sure, like a bird I trembled; when I woke, I saw in bed
The plaster that was kicked down by that fam'ly overhead.

4. Sure, when I christened Nelly--she's my youngest little child--
I brought in ev'ry neighbor, but with rage I did go wild.
I found the room was flooded; ev'ry dancer he had fled
From the bursting of the Croton by that fam'ly overhead.

5. Oh, Nora plays the banjo, and young Cora plays the flute,
While Rosy plays the concertine; it's one perpetual toot.
Cornelius plays the clarinet until his nose is red,
When the empty cradle warbled by that fam'ly overhead.

6. Oh, Nora has a parrot and sweet Josy has a cat,
And Katy has canary birds; Cornelius has a bat.
When passing through the hallway, oh, I always have a dread,
Of being hydrophobied by that fam'ly overhead.